Sunday, May 6, 2012

Sprint Cup Series On FOX From Talladega

It's been a wet morning at Talladega with a consistent rain. NASCAR has advised the teams in the driver's meeting that an updated schedule will be announced at noon ET. The good news is that the rain has passed and it looks like it's just a matter of drying the track. That effort normally takes about two hours.

The usual cast of characters is along for the ride this week on FOX. Michael Waltrip is driving in the race, but will still be a part of the TV coverage from start to finish. It will be interesting to see just how much FOX uses him and in what type of a roll once the race begins.

Originally, we were told Jeff Hammond would return to his past role of being located in the Hollywood Hotel since Waltrip was racing, but things have a way of changing at FOX these days.

It's been a tough comple of weeks for Darrell Waltrip and the FOX gang. It should be interesting to see if anything changes for the coverage today once things get underway.

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Mr Editor -Sorry that FOX persists in pushing dumb and dumber in pre-race ...time for a little A&E and Billy the Exterminator ...guess it's too much to hope for dumb and dumber to be trapped and relocated to non-broadcast TV, eh?Walter

This is really painful watching these clowns. So far, no mention of DW's comments about the fans or Fan Council. I get the feeling I'm wasting my time. Oh well, hope you have a great turnout at Twitter today. Should be a lot to talk about.

I hate to give DW props, but the pretaped segment he did on the prerace show about Talladega racing with a split screen of Carl Edwards' wreck and Bobby Allison's wreck was some of the best stuff he has done. Don't know who the producer was on that but they deserve a pat on the back. Great work!

Cleared off here in NJ, so I got some of the grass mowed. I never watch the pre-race crap anymore, too much junk, not enough info.

Going to watch the start then go out and do some more yard work. According to the clock on trackpass, there's 15 minutes beore the race starts, but they gave the command, so are they just going to burn fuel and warm up the track for 15 minutes?

Why all of a sudden - the Fox crewDW Joy etc -- what is it with theOVERLY LOUD TALKING AND TOO MUCHTALKING????? They were the last bastion ofhope and sanity. And Gordo..willnot can not win .. because whenhe brings th kid to the race ..no can do. Of course he is NO CAN DO for thelast few years Peace Oot

FOX has done a better job taking DW's claim how hard the drivers are working and showing it on tv. I feel very focused into the race rather than feeling disconnected like the past few FOX races.

We've seen more of the side-by-side battles in the back of the pack rather than watching single file drafting in the front.

They have kept the cameras wide and kept a nice perspective of the pack.

What they need to work on:- They haven't really documented how hot the water temps. are in the cars. They haven't given us an answer what the problem was with the 78 and the 39...now they are doing the 39 as I type

if Fox covered every race like this I think all the talk of boring green flag racing would be silenced cause when you show us the racing we forget about the wrecks cause id rather see the battles than just 2 cars (cause when you make the coverage boring people want excitment so there mind turns to wanting to see somthing other than just hyper tight coverage!)

Jeff Hammond would be great if they just made him a pit reporter. He knows the equiptment, the strategies, the people, and the right questions to ask. He belongs on pit road instead of searching around for something to report.

It's a shame he is at FOX because they have the most qualified reporters and no room for him. He could work the TNT pits instead of Turner borrowing the SPEED guy. He also knows more about the pits than ESPN's Jamie Little and Vince Welch combined.

Gordo could never ever win today.I have told the team that Gordonevahhh wins with the Kid in theGarage area. Of course he hasnt won many times anyway. And DW -- has been singing thepraises of Gordo. all year long. Get me outa here before I say something likeTHE ANNOUNCERS TALK TO MUCH ANDTOO LOUD AMEN

FOX needs to show the intervals more. I know they are trying to catch the attention of the casual fans with the 200+ mph speeds highlighted in yellow. But that's been well established over 100 laps in, I'd like to see who is on the lead lap and who is a lap down at this point in the race.